PCs are spontaneously crashing because of Intel problem, company says

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Intel says its PCs are spontaneously crashing – but that it has found the cause of the problem.

Users have been returning computers that have its Intel Core 13th/14th Gen desktop processors installed, the company said. Those problems computers were showing “instability issues”, which meant that they stopped working.

Now the chip company has been able to examine those returned computers and found that “elevated operating voltage” is causing the problem. That is the result of a problematic piece of code that means that the chips are asking for the wrong amount of power, which then causes them to stop working.

By Andrew Griffin.

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